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My new book is coming out soon: Vol 2 of my Evolution of Meaning series. I'll be posting excerpts, research findings, and other goodies from it here in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

Mama hen teaching the new chicks how to forage

What is "meaning"? If entities are defined as stable transmissions of information through time, then continued, accurate transmission has intrinsic significance to that entity so in-formed. Some information transmission has an existential import. Likewise, when the information

Working description of my next book. What do you think? Having established in Volume 1 that meaning is a kind of adaptive knowledge complexifying across emergent information processing regimes (structural, genetic, neuronal, and symbolic), Volume 2 zooms in on the last of these

The story of cosmic evolution has a direction that can be tracked: towards phenomena of increasing free energy rate density. Since the dawn of the universe, things have been growing more complex and informationally rich while moving further away from thermodynamic equilibrium.

How does meaning "complexify"? The Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK) is a big history framework that offers perhaps the best map of cosmic complexification to date. As creator Gregg Henriques summarizes, "genetic information processing gives rise to the dimension of Life,

2/ We’re excited to announce the launch of the Faith Development Pathway (FDP) — Institute of Applied Metatheory’s newest social impact initiative, led by Brendan Graham Dempsey It’s the world’s first open-access protocol for how faith develops, not just what we believe. ⬇️ integrallife.com/iam-spotlight-…

This project may be the most important thing I ever do in my life. I'm very proud to have helped launch it with Brendan Graham Dempsey at the Institute of Applied Metatheory Institute of Applied Metatheory

The irises are popping

Terence Deacon proposes: "Because it is complex, the concept of mental purpose can be progressively decomposed, revealing weaker forms of this consequence-organized relationship that do not assume intrinsic mentality. Thus the concepts of function, information, and value have

'Metamodernity is a new cultural trend, worldview or quality that aims to bring together the values and learning from modernity and postmodernity. Brendan Graham Dempsey is one of the vivid explorers, thinkers, and critics of this new movement. His special interest lies in the

For embodied, mobile agents navigating environments to achieve their goals, the thermodynamic imperative manifests as solving various situational problems (e.g., acquiring food, avoiding predators, etc.). To meet these challenges, says cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, agents

Is there a name for the multi-scalar structure/design shared by phenomena as disparate as the cosmic web, slime molds, and neuronal networks? Sort of a 3D constructal law pattern?

Recent delivery including Brendan Graham Dempsey’s Universal Learning Process

In my metamodern theological work, I created a Greek Gospel, then used modern historical-critical methods to debunk it and postmodern theory to deconstruct it. In my next act, I'll use metamodern mythopoeia to integratively reconstruct a hermeneutics of sincerely ironic Christian

youtube.com/watch?v=dYU2kj… Here I introduce a comprehensive update and revitalization of James Fowler's influential Faith Development Theory (FDT).

Made me think of your metamodern analysis, Paul Anleitner youtube.com/watch?v=pyuJ14…